Medical recruiter Remedium Partners ‘saves the National Health Service millions’

Remedium Partners, which was set up in 2013 to place permanent medical staff from abroad with the NHS rather than more agency locums, has started work with its 50th NHS trust and is set to double turnover to £1.5 million this year.

The company was launched by friends David Green and Philip Braham, both 27, with £10,000 of savings each. They estimate they have saved the NHS more than £25 million as they claim locums can charge up to £150 an hour, roughly double what a permanently employed doctor would get.

Approved: Owners David Green, left, and Philip Braham

Remedium, based in King’s Cross, Central London, has already placed more than 250 staff within the NHS and has been accepted as a ‘preferred provider’ onto the NHS National Clinical Staffing Framework, a list of officially approved agencies that have been fully and independently audited, and which meet the criteria for cost-effective temporary and permanent staff. Braham said: ‘We’re trying to ambitiously rescue the NHS. It’s a very big project! We’re working all over the country. It’s going well.

‘I was working at a big medical recruitment company. Probably 95 per cent of the business was agency locums. I went in there to start its permanent division after I graduated and I saw what was being paid by trusts for agency locums, which was quite extortionate.

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‘I was placing a lot of doctors into the NHS from around the world, but it was like banging my head against a brick wall because it was the wrong environment. How could you run a permanent desk in a locum agency?

‘We’ve probably saved the NHS over £25 million. Every permanent doctor we place could be roughly £100,000 in savings for that department, which is incredible. So the more permanent doctors that we place, the fewer locums they will need to rely on, meaning more savings.’